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Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

Writing is communication, and you don't know how you're doing until you put it in front of someone else's eyes. You also learn from critiquing other writers' work.

It's very hard to articulate the things that are important about writing.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.

Writing is a muscle that needs to be exercised every day: The more you write, the easier it becomes.

When you're writing, you're conjuring. It's a ritual, and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you're inviting into the room.